World renowned yoga instructor to raise money for humanitarian crises in Africa

Internationally recognized yoga instructor Seane Corn will be the featured master teacher at a day-long yoga workshop to raise money and awareness for International Medical Corps, a global humanitarian nonprofit organization. All proceeds from 1WorldYoga’s “Heal the World-Heal Our Bodies Yoga Fundraiser for Africa” will go toward IMC’s programs throughout the continent. The workshop, open to yoga enthusiasts of all levels, will take place on Sunday, July 30, 2006 from 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Glastonbury Community Center in Glastonbury, CT.

For more than 15 years, IMC has consistently been one of the first international aid organizations to respond to natural disasters and humanitarian crises throughout Africa, providing millions of people with comprehensive medical services, famine relief, HIV/AIDS education and economic programs.

IMC, which receives the highest ratings from the American Institute of Philanthropy, Charity Navigator and the Better Business Bureau, currently assists people in ten African countries, including Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. IMC has life saving programs in 21 countries worldwide.

In Sudan and Chad for example, IMC’s financial and medical assistance is crucial to helping millions of displaced people rebuild their lives. The situation in the Darfur region of Sudan is considered the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today, with Darfurians and Chadians vulnerable to militia attacks, the ravages of starvation, dehydration and disease.

IMC also is playing a major role in providing people in the drought-plagued Horn of Africa with much-needed food and nutritional services. By some accounts, this drought is the worse seen in more than a decade, with children particularly at risk of severe malnutrition and death.

In 2000, Corn created the yoga program at Children of the Night, a shelter in Van Nuys, Calif. that houses and educates adolescent prostitutes. She is the National Yoga Ambassador for YouthAIDS and was honored with the 2005 Sacred Sounds of Arts Conscious Humanitarian Award for her Off the Mat, Into the World campaign to benefit YouthAIDS. Allure magazine named Corn "the most sought-after yoga instructor in Los Angeles."

To register for the workshop, contact 1WorldYoga at http://1worldyoga.com. The Glastonbury Community Center is located at 300 Welles Street, Glastonbury, CT. Admission is $30.

To learn more about IMC, please visit our website at www.imcworldwide.org.

Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, IMC rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

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International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian non-profit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC is a private, voluntary, apolitical, non-sectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, IMC rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

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